SPEAKING QUIZ: INSTRUCTIONS

Instructions
 Individual students will be interviewed. For larger sections, the evaluation can be in pairs.
 Each interview should take no more than 3 minutes, leaving 2 minutes to grade.
 Each student will be asked one question from Unit 2 and one question from Unit 3.
 Students should speak for 1 minute per question.
 Students can take up to 15 seconds to prepare a response.
 If a student is unable to respond, you can switch to a new question once per unit.
 If the student’s response is too short, follow-up questions can be asked.

Learning outcomes
2.8 I can retell the history of a famous athlete. (Speaking)
2.9 I can retell the story of a sporting event. (Speaking)
3.3 I can… give medical advice. (Speaking)
3.4 I can… respond to oral questions about health. (Speaking)
3.6 I can retell an anecdote orally. (Speaking)
3.8 I can explain and discuss ways to stay healthy. (Speaking)

SPEAKING QUIZ: QUESTION BANK

Unit 2: Sports
1. What do you know about a famous athlete?
2. What is the oldest sporting event you know?
3. Who do you think is the most famous athlete in Chile?
4. What sporting event do you think has an interesting history?
5. Who do you think is the best athlete in the world?
6. What do you know about a famous sporting event?
7. What athlete do you think has an interesting story?
8. Have you ever seen a sporting event on TV?
9. Who do you think is the most important athlete in history?
10. What do you think is the most important sporting event?

Unit 3: Body and health

1. When was the last time you got sick? What happened?
2. What are the best ways to avoid getting sick?
3. Who is the healthiest person you know? What does he/she do to stay healthy?
4. What is more important to take care of: mental or physical health?
5. People sometimes say that ‘laughter is the best medicine’. What does that mean?
6. Which traditional remedies or herbal medicines do you know?
7. Have you ever been faced with a medical emergency? What did you do?
8. What do you do to take care of your body and your health?
9. Who is the unhealthiest person you know?
10. Do you regularly go to the doctor?
SPEAKING QUIZ: RUBRIC
A2 Grammar and Vocabulary Interactive
Intelligibility Fluency
Communication
5  Shows a good degree of  Is mostly intelligible and  Maintains simple exchanges.  Handles communication
control of simple has some control of  Requires very little in everyday situations
grammatical forms. phonological features at prompting and support. despite hesitation.
 Uses a range of appropriate both utterance and word  Constructs longer
vocabulary when talking levels. utterances but is not able
about everyday situations. to use complete language
except in well-rehearsed
utterances.
4 Performance shares features of Bands 3 and 5.
3  Shows sufficient control of  Is mostly intelligible,  Maintains simple exchanges,  Conveys basic meaning
simple grammatical forms. despite limited control despite some difficulty. in very familiar everyday
 Uses appropriate of phonological  Requires prompting and situations.
vocabulary to talk about features. support.  Produces utterances
everyday situations. which tend to be very
short – words or phrases
– with frequent
hesitation and pauses.
2 Performance shares features of Bands 1 and 3.
1  Shows only a limited control  Has very limited control  Has considerable difficulty  Has difficulty conveying
of a few grammatical forms. of phonological features maintaining simple basic meaning, even in
 Uses a vocabulary of isolated and is often intelligible. exchanges. very familiar everyday
words or phrases.  Requires additional situations.
prompting and support.  Responses are limited to
phrases, words or
isolated words with
frequent hesitation and
pauses.
0 Performance below Band 1.
The use of computer translation or any other unethical issues will automatically result in a 1.0.

SPEAKING QUIZ: GRADING SCALE

SPEAKING QUIZ: GRADING SHEET